On May 14, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Chris Frandsen wrote:
Our society considers using hormone enhancement for improving
physical performance cheating. Will we treat brain enhancement the
same way? How about the Chinese, Japanese and Russians? Is this the
new arms race? I suspect, yes, but it will probably be our grandkids
worrying about it.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227083.700-will-designer-brains-divide-humanity.html?full=true&print=true
Follow-up:
In fact, the above-referenced article is nowhere near as pie-in-the-
sky as my prior comment suggests...
These things will start of as Vinge-esque external annotation systems,
I suspect. I hope I live long enough to wear one of those, but not
sure I want to be as jacked-in as the article suggests with brain
prostheses, although I've got a nice lime-sized hole in my brain to
park it, should the need arise.
Dave
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